CS5604, Unit DL
Edward A. Fox
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061-0106
Abstract:
The vision of digital libraries, expressed so eloquently by Vannevar
Bush in 1945 when he described Memex
[1],
provides a rallying point for work in information storage and retrieval.
With our course theme of digital libraries, we begin by trying to
figure out what they could and should be, their advantages and
disadvantages, what might be in them and how they might function.